Apparently the project secretary has a hand in it, and sponsors are
needed. So maybe it's not as easy as it seems.
It is fairly easy to bring any proposal to vote. Debian has done it numerous times.
Too bad that the users never get to vote.
There is no way to determine accurately who is a open source project user or who is a random troll online. You basically have to let the whole internet vote which I far from convince is a useful thing especially for system level software. All major distributions at this point have switched to systemd or in the process of doing so which should tell you the value of it.